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New York Festivals Radio Programming and Promotions Award - 2007

BEST HUMAN INTEREST STORY
Gold Medal:
I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One at the Holiday Inn
Lu Olkowski, 15:30

A former heroin addict realizes that he wants to help other addicts kick their habits. The problem is, he wants to do this using a hallucinogenic drug - Ibogaine - that is completely illegal, and which requires medical expertise he doesn't have.

BEST REGULARLY SCHEDULED COMEDY PROGRAM
Gold Medal:
SERIES 11 Central Ave
800 lb. Productions, 40 drop-ins

The weekly radio comic strip plays out in the kitchen of 11 Central Ave, the home of an extended family where a hodgepodge of other characters regularly stop by.

Silver Medal:
SERIES Right Between the Ears
Kansas Public Radio, 14 hour-long pieces

One-hour sketch comedy show that skewers politics, celebrities, sports figures, the rich and powerful, the quicky -- even the occasional turkey.

SOCIAL ISSUES/CURRENT EVENTS
Silver Medal:
SERIES Philosophy Talk
Ben Manilla Productions, 11 hour-long pieces

Philosophy on the radio? You've got to be kidding? Well, sometimes we do... (kid, that is.) Mostly we look at today's important ideas with an eye to thinking them through.

BEST ONGOING NEWS STORY
Finalist Certificate:
Reflections on Return
Youth Radio, 3 drop-ins

Youth Radio interviews soldiers about being away and coming home.

Information/Documentary
Finalist Certificate:
Joseph Barbera, Legendary Animator
Joe Bevilacqua, 06:38

Joe Barbera died December 18, 2006. Joe Bevilacqua interviewed him in 1990 and got together with Leonard Maltin to talk about Barbera's stunning career.

Society for Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award - 2006

Flatlined: How Illinois Shortchanges Rural Students
2 below zero, 26:36

This documentary shows how students in small town schools suffer because of the way Illinois funds its public schools.

Gabriel Awards - 2006

Angel of Burundi
Sonya Varma / World Vision Report, 07:10

Maggy Barankitse is a Tutsi from Burundi who's helped thousands of Tutsi and Hutu children orphaned by that country?s civil war. Twelve years ago, she was a witness to mass killings during that war. Because Barankitse is Tutsi, her life was spared - and she managed to save 25 children. She's founder of Shalom House, which cares for orphans and refugees.

The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

2007
SERIES Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
WCAI / WNAN, 20 segments

Those who serve Cape Cod's poor are the first to point out that behind the veil of the affluent summer paradise we all recognize, hides a community that continually struggles to make ends meet.

2006
SERIES Hidden Kitchens
The Kitchen Sisters, 2 hour-long, 2 segments

Secret, underground, unexpected, below-the-radar, community cooking across America.

2005
Mandela: An Audio History
American Radio Works, 60:00

New ARW special uses rare archival tape to chronicle Nelson Mandela's journey from freedom fighter to political prisoner to president.

NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Award - 2005

EXCELLENCE IN RADIO
First Place:
In Limbo - Gay Palestinians
Radio Netherlands, 16:11

Palestinian gays find themselves in legal limbo, with nowhere to turn.

Third Place:
Love Exile on the Road
Radio Netherlands, 29:30

Martha McDevitt-Pugh, founder of Love Exiles, flew from Amsterdam to San Francisco to join over 40 marriage equality activists and supporters on a bus trip across the heartland of America.

ABA Silver Gavel Award - 2005

RADIO
Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
American Radio Works, 60:00

For the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, ARW presents this documentary about the man who led the fight to dismantle segregation: Thurgood Marshall.

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award - 2005

International Radio Winner:
Mandela: An Audio History
Joe Richman, Sue Johnson and Ben Shapiro / American Radio Works, 60:00

Mandela's journey from freedom fighter to political prisoner to president.

Society of Environmental Journalists Awards - 2005

OUTSTANDING REPORTING - LARGE MARKET
Second Place:
How Long Do You Keep a Polluting Heap?
Great Lakes Radio Consortium, 04:18

What to do when you're the biggest polluter you know.

Packrats Hooked on Freecycling
Great Lakes Radio Consortium, 04:46

New ways to get rid of stuff.

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